Didn't see this coming at all. He really screwed over the Devils by waiting until after free agency to "make the decision". While he is not saying it in public, there has to be some prior bad blood between him and devils.

Unbelievable story. NJ has to be an absolute mess after this one. 77 million left on his contract. NJ will get a cap penalty of 250k per year for 12 years and have to forfeit there 1st round pick in 2014. It presumed Kovy will go play tax free in the KHL.

Hopefully someone goes knee to knee(or throat) on him in the olympics and ends his career.

A few things:

1. Its time to stop chastising anyone who questions the commitment of European players. 2. This sucks so bad for the devils, cap ramifications, loss of draft pick, basically missed out on a full free agent year3. This balances out this division with the west, 3 7-team divisions and 1 8 team division. 4. Jagr may be worth signing even if you assume he's going to fall apart after 50 games if he can keep the team somewhere near respectability.